Photo: Oliver Stone comes to testify to the working group of the House Supervision and Responsibility Committee on the declassification of federal secrets in the JFK archives in Capitol Hill in Washington, on April 1, 2025.

Oliver Stone asks Congress to reopen JFK’s murder investigation

The filmmaker Oliver Stone asked Congress on Tuesday to reopen the investigation into the murder of President John F. Kennedy, trying to revive the infused conspiracy theories more than six decades after the murder of 1963 that shook the nation.

Stone, who raised the theories in his 1991 film “JFK”, testified before a Chamber’s work group about the declassification of the federal secrets audience on the launch of last month of recently declassified records of the investigation.

“I ask the committee to reopen what the Warren commission failed miserably to complete. I ask him, in good faith, out of all the political considerations, that the murder of this President Kennedy reinvested, from the crime scene to the Chamber,” he said in his opening comments.

Stone, as he did before without providing conclusive evidence, pointed to the Central Intelligence Agency. “We reinvestigate the fingerprints of intelligence about Lee Harvey Oswald from 1959 to 1960 his violent death in 1963 and, most importantly, this CIA, whose muddy footprints have ended,” he said.

Photo: Oliver Stone comes to testify to the working group of the House Supervision and Responsibility Committee on the declassification of federal secrets in the JFK archives in Capitol Hill in Washington, on April 1, 2025.

The filmmaker Oliver Stone (c) testifies to the working group of the House Supervision and Responsibility Committee on the declassification of federal secrets in the JFK archives, after the recent launch of the Trump administration files, in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on April 1, 2025.

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In March, the Government hurriedly launched more than 2000 documents for a total of approximately 80,000 pages. Most of what the government published was not new; In fact, much of what attracted attention to social networks and in the news reports had long been in the public domain, except the minor writings, such as the blackening of the personal identification information of sources or employees of the CIA (names and addresses) that have now been revealed.

The recently declined versions of these documents did not substantially change what is known about the finding of Warren’s central commission that Stone has questioned: that Oswald was the lonely armed man.

But they shed light on the details of the espionage of the mid -twentieth century that the CIA had fought fiercely to keep a secret and that are treasures for historians and academics.

The members of the Republican Committee pressed on Tuesday the statements, also without evidence, about the investigations of JFK’s death, they repeatedly obtained events that surround the probes badly and even gave time to allow witnesses to speak freely of theories instead of asking questions.

In this archive photo of May 20, 2024, Oliver Stone attends the 77th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festives in Cannes, France.

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While praising the Trump administration for the publication of JFK documents, they also promoted unfounded statements that all the information has not been made available, questioning whether the public would really know what happened.

The Democrats in the subcommittee sought to concentrate on what they referred to the truth, deterring their colleagues and witnesses to drift to conspiracy theories while criticizing the deployment of declassified documents.

The Stone film focused on the work of the New Orleans district prosecutor, Jim Garrison, who conducted an independent investigation of the murder, which resulted in his failed prosecution of the businessman of New Orleans Clay Shaw, who alleged that Garrison was involved in a CIA conspiracy to kill the president.

The film was a commercial and critical success, raising $ 205 million and winning two academy awards. He was attributed to the popularization of the theories of conspiracy of the participation of the FBI and the CIA in the murder of Kennedy.

The film was accredited by the Assassination Records Review Board as at least partially responsible for the approval of President John F. Kennedy Assassination Registries of Collection of the Collection Law of 1992. Stone testified before the Congress in support of that bill. The law ordered the publication of all documents related to the murder for 2017, although that timeline was delayed several times.

The release of the film also coincided with a greater degree of public skepticism in the Warren Commission that found Oswald acted alone.

Brief vote As recent as 2023 has constantly demonstrated that most Americans have constantly believed that more than one person was responsible for the murder. The number he believed in the official conclusion of a lonely gun saw a strong decrease in the seventy and eighties, reaching a historical minimum of 10% in 1992.

ABC News Ely Brown contributed to this report.

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